Mitchell Funk Art
American, b. 1950
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of color photography. In 1970, he participated in one of the first color photography shows at the Brooklyn Museum titled “Images en Couleur." In 1971, he was included in the visionary books Frontiers of Photography and Color (Life Library of Photography), both published by Time-Life. He has done more than 50 photography magazine covers, including covers for Newsweek and Life.
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Style: Contemporary
Artist: Mitchell Funk
Taxi Portrait - Lost in Thought in New York City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk's signature hi-color/design photography merges with photojournalism in this introspective New York City Taxi Portrait.
Signed, dated, numbered low...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Downtown Manhattan Skyline with Graffiti Wall, Architectural Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The towering glass skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan are framed by a colorful rooftop graffiti wall in this captivating photograph by street photographer Mitchell Funk .
The fine art p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink
Trumpet Jazz Musician and Statue of Liberty
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The photo represents a synthesis of Americana. Jazz meets the Statue of Liberty during a perfect sunset.
Signed, dated lower and numbered 3/25 lower right recto, unframed, printe...
Category
1980s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Inkjet
Umbrellas, Rainy New York
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 4/15, other size available, unframed
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
New York City, Lower Manhattan Blue Skyline with Boats
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 5/15, unframed, other sizes available, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Mitchell Funk is a "Color Photographer Pionee...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Gritty Street Photography with Geometric Billboards Manhattan Street Scene
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A moment in gritty street photography is captured where street billboards and a solitary figure strike a perfect grid-like compositional balance.
Signed, dated, and numbered 3/15...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Black Woman with Flamboyant Hair at Cafe
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A black woman with outrageous long blond braids is captured in a cafe. She is seen through a window, and the nature of her hair integrates with the surrounding color structure.
Si...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Hot Pink Hot Car in Times Square - Automotive
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In the visual madness of Times Square, a beacon of futuristic design and color in the form of a hot pink Corvette stops before a light. The uncanny ima...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Vintage Las Vegas Motel Sign - Mid Century Sky Ranch Motel
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A perfect day with penetrating light and a deep cobalt-blue sky was the ideal context for Mitchell Funk to photograph the punchy primary colors of a mid-century Las Vegas hotel sign....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Joyful San Francisco Victorian in Purple with Rainbow like Gay Flag
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A prismatic rainbow symbolic of the Gay Flag crowns a pair of purple San Francisco Victorians, adding color and meaning. The whole image exudes a sense of joy...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
American Flag Swaying from a New York City Building With Graffiti Wall Art
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Art imitates life. A five-story wall painting of a verdant tree seamlessly blends in with a similar tree in the foreground, creating a double take. To the immediate right, direction...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Fleeting Glance in Fleeting Light - Washington Square Park
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Veteran Street Photographer Mitchell Funks' signature style is to energize traditional photojournalism/ street photography with overly dramatic light, color, and composition. This wo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Human - Tree Fusion - ( Photographic Abstraction )
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
While in Central Park, Photographer Mitchell Funk captures a moment where a leafless tree trunk and a faceless human with a flowering hat have a symbiosis. They are both weird lookin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Fetish Spanking, Folsom Street Fair - Gay Interest BDSM
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Folsom Street Fair featuring public spanking - Gay Interest
This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and numbered 2/15, lower right re...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Gay Beach, A Heavenly Place on Miami Beach Men in Bathing Suits. Gay Interest
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Follow the rainbow flags, and it will lead you to the famous Gay Beach on Miami Beach. Beyond the couples in the foreground, we see a packed scene of engaged in-shape men in bathing...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Plaza Hotel with Yellow Taxis, Blue Sky New York City in Spring
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk makes a statement about two New York icons. The majestic Plaza Hotel proudly rises against a deep cobalt blue sky in the crisp early morning light....
Category
1990s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
"Messiah is Hear" with Godly Light, Celestial Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A New York City street sign is viewed from the back. Posted to it's metallic surface are two street bills featuring a religious figure in a ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Golden Dessert Road to Infinity in the American West
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Man is dwarfed by nature. A long golden road winds through the vast expanses and monumentality of the American West. The grandeur of the surrounding landscape minimizes a single car;...
Category
1980s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Two African American Women Shine in Pink and Orange on Easter Day Parade
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Punchy pink and outrageous orange outfits shine as brightly as the subject smiles in this street photograph taken on Fifth Avenues Easter Day Parade.
Signed, dated and numbered 2/15,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Motorcycle on Manhattan's East River Drive with Long Shadows
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk's approach to the industrial world is always poetic. One would not think of a city highway to be aesthetic, but Funk seeks out beauty in unexpected places. "Motorcycle...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Jazz Musicians Saxophone and Trumpet Vibe in Red Swirl - Music is Color
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Color is Music, and Music is Color. Two Jazz Musicians strike a high note as a colorful red swirl visually expresses the vibe of the music. It's a red-hot moment, and photographer M...
Category
1980s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Neon Signs Broadway Theater District in Dramatic Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Golden light skims off the facades on West 44th Street as Neon Lights create a second light source that beckons. Two of Broadway's most famous mainstays, Sardis Restaurant and The S...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Whimsical Woman with Colorfully Fanciful Outfit Blue Eyeglasses
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures a frontal portrait of an older woman with an inventively outrageous look. Piercing blue circular eyeglasses and a handmade pointy hat remin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The San Remo Central Park West Framed by Cherry Blossoms Flowers
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A circle of cherry blossoms frames the two spires of the iconic San Remo. This is not a staged image. Photographer Mitchell Funk found the right location, angle, and arrangement of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Free Spirited Asian Female Dancing Outdoors against Green Background
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A young woman expresses an internal moment of joy and free expression as she strikes a spontaneous dance pose in Central Park. The scene is a captured moment by street photographer M...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Joyful Jazz Trumpet Player in Silhouette Floating Orange Sunset Los Angeles
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
At sunset, a trumpeter strikes a high note above it all. The dreamy, out-of-focus lights of hip Los Angles represents his music in visual terms. Funk is ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Urban Landscape Golden Sky with Melting and Dissolving Glass Skyscraper
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Through an 800mm lens, late afternoon light dissolves a glass skyscraper into a glistening and glimmering rectangle. Atmospheric conditions assist the optical illusion where the peri...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Boy Playing with Bubbles In Central Park
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Bubble Encounter. Biomorphic abstract shapes from manmade monumental bubbles evoke the character of living forms. They echo the natural forms of the rocks but in a softer, lighter wa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink
Street Photography with Chairs and Pedestrians
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Master of design, light, and composition, Street Photographer Mitchell Funk outdoes himself with this visually intriguing image of street patterns created by raking light. The line...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Posing Pigeons. Manhattan in Neutral Colors Grey and Gray Birds
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A formal and highly balanced composition based on the random positions of pigeons caught the eye of street photographer Mitchell Funk. Each pigeon has it's own pose and personality. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Dog Walker in Magical Golden Light - Color Hunter Photographer
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The color-hunting eye of veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk transforms drab street scenes into sanctuaries of luminous bright colors. Manhattan's grey canyons receive only fl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Heard of Elephants on African Plane at Sunset
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Silhouetted elephants trek across a desolate African landscape are backlit by a soulful sunset. Color photographer Mitchell Funk pushes the boundaries of animal portraiture with a pr...
Category
1980s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Head Shop East Village New York City, Hippie Era
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The early 1970s was a period of reexamination of the state of photography for Mitchell Funk. He broke with the tradition of shooting gritty street photography in black and white and ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Lower Manhattan Skyline in Gold Light with Moon. New York City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
New York City seen uniquely through the artful lens of Mitchell Funk. We all have seen images of the financial district in Lower Manhattan but this original in a very artful way.
T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Unexpected Billboard from The High Line Chelsea
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An unexpected detail of a green billboard is shown occupying the full lower left-hand quadrant of a city scene composition. It was shot by street photographer Mitchell Funk from The High Line...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Kids with Colorful Clothes in Brooklyn Park - Color Photography Pioneer
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In the 1970s color photography was still not recognized as fine art. As a street photographer, Mitchell Funk breaks with traditional black and white photography and shoots on the street with Kodachrome. His goal is to make color photography full of color. In this image, notice how the colors of the kids...
Category
1970s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Hip Beautiful Black Female Roller Skates in Central Park Soaked in Golden Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A hip young black woman in Central Park pauses for a moment of reflection after her roller skate dance. Street photographer, Mithcell Funk, captures her in an off moment of introspe...
Category
1990s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
East Hampton Beach with Dramatic Clouds, Color Photography, Clyfford Still
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A single house juts out into a vast sky and sea of Long Island. The image takes inspiration from the epic 19th-century paintings and the American West with vast unending sky and untamed landscapes. Yet the composition is quite radical and evocative of the simple shapes of Color Field painter Clyfford Still...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Urban Street Scene, 9 West 57th Street in New York City, Abstract Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The Famous 9 West 57th Street red sculpture anchors a New York City street photograph that is part representation and part abstract. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Roof Top Jazz Trumpet Player Celebration of Life, Fireworks in New York
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A celebration of Life is symbolized by a rooftop Black Jazz Musician hitting the high note just as a fireworks display lights up the New York sky. Signed ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Hell's Kitchen , New York City, Street Photography by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk shoots an upward view of an old walkup in Hell's Kitchen with golden glittering light against a hot sky. The warm colors vaguely allude to the distr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Story of a Street Light and a Bridge
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk creates an arresting image composed of contrasting elements. A common New York City street light morphs into a haunting abstraction while ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Horses in the Rain, East Hampton
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This image is signed, dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto. Other sizes are available. The work is unframed and printed later. Can a street photograph be a grab shot and precise...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Graffiti Wall with Little Green Man - Urban Art Sci- fi
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Against popular belief, there really are little green men in New York City. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk, isolates an urban art wall painting in the looming above a park with people mulling around. It's a striking composition as with the central figure framed between windows. A small American flag...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Running Dogs in New York City Early Morning Light adorned in Blues and Greens
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Dogs are a wonderful and joyful gift to us all. ln a continuing series, Mitchell Funk explores the dog's playful nature and captures it in dramatic early morning light. The magic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Horses, East Hampton
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signature: Signed , dated lower right, Edition 2 /15 Printed later, unframed, other size available Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Photographic Film
Horses in the Rain, East Hampton
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This image is signed, dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto. Other sizes are available. The work is unframed and printed later. Can a street photograph be a grab shot and precise...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Grand Central Terminal Cathedral Window in Golden Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A single figure is silhouetted as natural light pours into the grand concourse. The cathedral-like windows along with a radiant light evoke a sense of mysticism and spirituality in ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
Empty Market. San Francisco Market Street Looking Down late Afternoon Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk employs a unique camera angle to turn a busy San Francisco Street into a minimalist artistic statement. This main urban thoroughfare normally crammed with traffic is d...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Dreamy Clouds and The New York City Pyramid
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This Mithcell Funk image exhibits both beauty and whimsy. An interplay of beautiful magenta and blue is echoed with an interplay of structures in Long Island City. Alternating buil...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Dogs are Part of the Landscape of Our Lives, II
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Running Dog with Long Shadows is an image filled with moving forms and patterns frozen in time. The flatness of the image is accentuated by the dog and his enlarged cast shadow, whi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Gay San Francisco , Folsom Street Fair. BDSM Leather LGBTQ FETISH
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Two participants in the event mug it up in style during the LGBTQ FETISH Folsom Street Fair. BDSM Leather . Signed dated and numbered 3/15 lower right recto, other sizes available, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Inkjet
Horses in the Rain, East Hampton - Neutral palette
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated and numbered lower right, Edition 2 /15 unframed, other size available, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color P...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Film
San Francisco Bay Bridge in Fog, Color Photography by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
It's a moody and original account of an iconic American view. Dots of red for taillights become an abstract pattern in the foreground, while silhouetted pedestrians punctuate the com...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper
Horses in the Rain, East Hampton - Neutral palette
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The pastoral setting of an East East Hampton landscaped with grazing horses is captured by Mitchell Funk. Signed, dated and numbered lower right, E...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Film
Skaters in Central Park at Sunset
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed dated and numbered 3/15 lower right recto, other sizes available, unframed, printed later
View of the Sheep Meadow looking south with the Central Park skyline...
Category
1970s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Inkjet
Florida Parking Lot
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed , dated lower right, Edition 2 /15 Printed later, unframed, other size available, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Category
1970s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
World Trade Center, Twin Towers, Manhattan
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated, numbered 4/15 recto, unframed, printed later, other sizes available Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Category
1970s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper
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